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Peeba raises $4.2M to digitize Asia’s B2B wholesale market  

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Over the past two years, Asia’s retailers were forced to do virtual meetings instead of visiting in-person trade shows or conferences to source new brands and products due to the pandemic lockdowns. Peeba is bringing about the next stage of global retail innovation. The startup has secured $4.2

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AARP Innovation Labs takes a holistic approach to age-tech at CES

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AARP Innovation Labs, the incubator program, highlights the many facets of aging in its CES’ virtual presentation with a roster of startups that were divided into five groups: community, clinic, wellness, financial services and housing. Goalsetter raises $15 million to go B2B with children’s financial literacy app.

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Nigerian blockchain payments startup Bitmama closes $2M pre-seed as it scales to new markets

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Subsequently, they built a crypto exchange platform and allowed these users to access virtual assets formally and explore other use cases, including buying, selling and swapping crypto and peer-to-peer transactions. One thing which is the backbone of Bitmama is that we are very innovative. CEO Ruth Iselema.

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Extra Crunch roundup: B2B marketplaces, edtech M&A, breaking into the $1M ARR club

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B2B marketplaces will be the next billion-dollar e-commerce startups. Marketplaces created for B2B activity are surging in popularity. The COVID-19 pandemic is helping startups that innovate in areas like payments, financing, insurance and compliance. B2B marketplaces will be the next billion-dollar e-commerce startups.

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Visa takes a swipe in fintech, builds new online marketplace

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As a result, a lot of innovation that is occurring in fintech is funded by venture dollars. We’re trying to bring that innovation to our clients, whether they are banks, processors or other fintechs.” One of its partners, for example, is virtual card startup Extend. . We believe about $20 trillion of that is card eligible.

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Daily Crunch: Silicon Valley Bank goes bust — regulators take control of $175B+ in deposits

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. — Haje The TechCrunch Top Story Regulators stepping in : Natasha M reports that the bank and its 17 branches were closed by the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation. Building a lean B2B startup growth stack TechCrunch+ is our membership program that helps founders and startup teams get ahead of the pack.

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Fresha raises $100M for its beauty and wellness booking platform and marketplace

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Fresha’s current range of services include a free-to-use platform for booking appointments; free software for managing accounts; a payments service that includes both a physical point of sale and digital interface; and a wider marketplace both to provide goods to the businesses (B2B); and for the businesses to sell goods to customers (B2C).

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